(a) Sick Leave is a fringe benefit privilege and is very similar to insurance in that it is designed to prevent you from suffering economic hardship by providing you with your usual rate of compensation during periods of incapacity. Sick Leave, life insurance, is a protection in case of need and not a benefit to be used whenever you, as an employee, would like to take a day off.
(b) Each full-time employee of the Village shall be entitled for each complete hour of service to sick leave of .0575 hours, a total of four and six-tenths (4 6/10) hour for each eighty (80) hours of service. Each employee may use sick leave upon approval of the responsible Supervisor for absence due to personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to other employees, and illness or death in the employee’s immediate family, provided, however, that absence due to death or illness in the family shall be limited to three working days unless further absence is approved by the Department Head or Mayor on receipt of a request in writing for such an extension. Immediate family defined as only; spouse, parent or legal guardian, child or foster child, brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law.
(c) Unused sick leave shall be cumulative without limit. When sick leave is used, it shall be deducted from the employee’s credit on the basis of one (1) hour for every one (1) hour of absence from previously scheduled you work.
(d) The responsible Supervisor shall require an employee to furnish a satisfactory written, signed statement to justify the use of sick leave. If medical attention is required, a certificate stating the nature of the illness and that you are physically fit to return to work from a licensed physician shall be required to justify the use of sick leave. Falsification of either a written signed statement, or a physician’s certificate shall be grounds for disciplinary action, including dismissal.
(e) This section shall not be construed to interfere with existing unused sick leave credit where attendance records have been maintained and credit has been given employees for unused sick leave.
(f) Sick Leave will accrue based upon these hours; regular, overtime, holiday, sick, and vacation only, with a maximum of 120 hours per calendar year.
(Ord. 1287-2020. Passed 11-16-20.)